Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

at least 15 years lol

To be fair, if you set up a Servar stack, you should already know enough not to use utorrent.

It’s so ubiquitous that for about a second I thought wait what I thought that was the good one until I remembered that I’ve been using qBittorrent for a decade.

For a time, it just was the client.

you would not believe how common it is. It's like making a class of highschoolers take a colorblindness test. There's always ONE who had no idea

sidenote, it's really sad how the education system won't even spend 10 minutes a year to diagnose something that effects millions of children. There's FREE websites that they can just open on their board or projector

I remember on Reddit I'd see like a post a month from some uneducated pirate person asking how to fix a utorrent issue. It was fun watching them try to justify using it with all the other legit, updated clients. It didn't ever go well for the OP.

I used 2.2.1 well into the last decade. Every version after that was either pointless or full of some sort of malware.

i still see it in my peers list

Same, I was under the impression that this was fairly common knowledge, but it's good to have it openly announced by some authority on the matter.

I switched from that container to one that uses qbittorrent and a VPN.

qBittorrent web UI works better on a phone for my use case, and I kept having to manually restart the transmission container whenever the VPN connection dropped.

I been using Transmission since it came out 20 years ago. I never understood why you would use anything else.

It's FOSS and has the simplest interface with all the options.

Throughout the years I've seen so many of these apps get mass-adopted, then a few years later some issue comes up that makes people mass-exodus to another app and it starts all over again.

Meanwhile, Transmission has been consistent (and you can self-host/run seedboxes with it).

I was never a huge fan of those binhex containers assuming that's what you're using. Updates become a chore for maintainers when containers try to do too much and they also become responsible for making sure everything works together. Also, just me, but I don't like the idea of funneling other traffic that needs a vpn through a container that is tightly coupled to my torrent client.

Recommend trying a standalone transmission container and using a gluetun container's network. https://docker-compose.de/en/gluetun/

It's not bad but it's pretty bare. A lot of people like their bells and whistles these days.

Edit: Changed the wording to be less broad for all the "But I..." specials.

For me the best are:

• Qbittorrent
• Transmission QT
• Ktorrent
• Deluge

Special mention: BiglyBT Fork of Azureus without the shit of Azureus

There are other options such as qbittorrent or deluge though I would not recommend deluge due to IP leaks and it hasn't been updated since 2022

It's the default included with Ubuntu but they (Ubuntu) haven't updated it to be the latest released version. You have to add their PPA.

I switched over to qbittorrent for better control over what happens after the files download a few years ago.

Isn't it as simple as exporting all torrents as .torrent files, importing them in qB, then pointing qB to the same downloads folder?